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Mr. Paiiie was a man of strong opinions, which he did not hesitate 

 to express with the greatest freedom. He was constant to his friends, 

 and never left an unjust criticism unanswered. He bitterly opposed 

 any action in religion, science, or politics which he believed to be dis- 

 honest. He retained his strong will and excellent memory unimpaired 

 to the last. His interest in his favorite science never failed him, and 

 he showed his wish permanently to aid it by bequeathing his entire 

 fortune to the Observatory of Harvard College. 



CHARLES UPHAM SHEPARD* 



Professor Shepard died, after a short illness, on the 1st of 

 May last, at Charleston, S. C, where for many years he had spent his 

 winters. He was born in Little Compton, R. I., in the summer of 

 1804, and hence had nearly completed his eighty-second year. But 

 until his last illness he was still young in his ardent devotion to his 

 favorite science, his delight over the rare and beautiful among minerals, 

 whether in his own cabinet or that of another, and his zeal for collect- 

 ing and discovering new facts and new species ; and not less young in 

 his cheerful and kindly nature. 



After graduating at Amherst College, in 1824, he became a student 

 of Professor Nuttall's at Cambridge in botany and mineralogy, and 

 soon after engaged at Boston in instruction in these branches. At the 

 same time he commenced his publications on mineral localities and their 

 minerals, in the American Journal of Science. 



In 1827, Mr. Shepard accepted the position of assistant to Professor 

 Silliman in chemistry, mineralogy, and geology, which he retained, to 

 the great satisfaction of the Professor, for four years. While thus en- 

 gaged he also continued, during leisure weeks, his field and laboratory 

 work in mineralogy. " A Mineralogical Journey in Northern New 

 England," including a study of the remarkable localities of Acworth, 

 N. H., and Paris, Me., and " The Mineralogy and Geology of Orange 

 County, N. Y., and Sussex County, N. J.," illustrated by a detailed 

 map of the various mineral localities, are the titles of two of the many 

 papers published by him at that time ; and they indicate his desire to 

 give others a knowledge of localities, as well as to make known the 

 results of his investigations. 



In 1832, Professor Shepard published the first part of a '' Treatise 

 on Mineralogy," in which the system of the eminent Austrian miner- 



* From the American Journal of Science, June, 1886. 



